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title: This shepherd also told him to beware of the beasts he should next m… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This shepherd also told him to beware of the beasts he should next meet, for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen. Who acts: shepherd, man, beasts. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 15

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This shepherd also told him to beware of the beasts he should next meet, for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, man, beasts · **What happens:** tell, beware, meet, be, see · **To what, where:** man, beasts, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, man, beasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:26:15
# text = This shepherd also told him to beware of the beasts he should next meet, for they were of a very different kind from any he had yet seen.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	next	next	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	nmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | this shepherd |  | man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **beware** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the beasts | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **meet** | should | man | the beasts *not said here* |  |  |  | next *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | beasts *= beast* |  |  | any |  | of a different kind | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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